The ASUS ROG Zenith II Extreme is targeted at the top tier of TRX40 boards. Featuring no less than twenty 70 A power stages, active VRM cooling, a virtual cornucopia of extreme overclocking features, premium accessories, and even an OLED display, the ASUS ROG Zenith II Extreme has all the bells and whistles. Of course, with a US$850 price tag it has a lot to live up to.
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The ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus motherboard features a matte black PCB with the the TUF Gaming series logo on the rear panel cover. In keeping with the muted color pattern, the VRM and chipset heat sinks are all black colored as well.
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The Asus ROG Strix B350-F Gaming motherboard was a decent board for its day, but it had some room for improvement. Asus has tried to renovate that room with the ROG Strix B450-F Gaming board, which brings a few feature enhancements including support for AMD’s StoreMI software storage acceleration technology, which intelligently moves hard drive data to an SSD, and an enhanced layout.
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The BIOS meanwhile, is standard Asus. That translates to smooth navigation, decent fan control, and a solid array of tweaking options. By default, the small chipset fan is always on, but those who value absolute quietness can simply drag the Q-Fan curve to the right. Setting it to enable at, say, 80°C ensures that it remains off at all times, at the expense of raised heat around the chipset section.
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This board is a clear step forward for Asus compared to their last-gen design. However, given the price tag, unless this board is being pushed to the limit, there are better equipped or cheaper boards available which leave this shy from an editor’s choice.
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As befits something called the Prime, and certainly a special edition of that subbrand, the Prime 30 has plenty of high bandwidth options – USB 3.2 Gen 2, 5G Ethernet, AX200 Wi-Fi, Thunderbolt 3, M.2 slots etc. There is also a full 16 stage power phase using the PowerIR 3555 voltage regulators, black capacitors and even an active cooling fan to keep everything as frosty as the colour scheme.
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We’ve finally got some more affordable TRX40 chipset motherboards to show you this month and while they’ll still not leave you with much change from £500, they are significantly cheaper than those we’ve looked at so far. First out of the blocks is the Asus ROG Strix TRX40-E Gaming, which costs £480, but appears to sport many of the same features included with the more expensive Zenith II Extreme.
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The ASUS ROG Strix X570-E Gaming motherboard features a matte black PCB with the redesigned ROG overlay scheme featuring a raindrop word pattern across the chipset cover. The board’s ATX form factor provides more than enough surface area to house the integrated components, as well as giving the board compatibility with most available gamer-friendly enclosures.
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Today we are looking at the ASUS X570 ROG Crosshair VIII HERO Wi-Fi Edition. For those who are familiar with ASUS and its Republic of Gamers (ROG) series, it should be a little to no surprise to anyone that ASUS has put great care and thought into the ROG Crosshair VIII as one of the flagship X570 motherboards on the market. It isn’t even the most expensive one, which makes it all that much more appealing.
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Additional high-profile features include a two-drive M.2 riser card, a machined aluminum case badge, an anodized aluminum screwdriver with replacement tips, drivers and apps on a thumb drive rather than optical media, and the Asus Fan Extension card.
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